EDITORIAL ESCALATION PRINCIPLE L.A. SCHOOL BOARD DETERMINED TO DEFY REFORM.LOS Angeles Unified School District The Los Angeles Unified School District (the "LAUSD") is the largest (in terms of number of students) public school system in California and the second-largest in the United States. Only the New York City Department of Education has a larger student population. board members must think they are being awfully clever. With Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa Antonio Ramon Villaraigosa (born Antonio (Tony) Ramon Villar, Jr. on January 23, 1953) is the mayor of Los Angeles, California. He is the first Latino mayor of Los Angeles since Cristobal Aguilar in 1872. off on a two-week jaunt across Asia, they have accelerated their search for a new school superintendent Noun 1. school superintendent - the superintendent of a school system overseer, superintendent - a person who directs and manages an organization . They could pick someone within days, a bold defiance of the mayor's suggestion that they let him -- the man who will be the boss of the superintendent come January -- in on the decision, or face a reversal of their pick in a few months. In taking this tack, the school board is sending the mayor a simple message: Nya-nya-nya. How much good will this do for LAUSD LAUSD Los Angeles Unified School District (Los Angeles, CA) students? Probably not much. It's just one of countless other versions of power plays going on around the globe where efforts to find common ground result in all-out conflict. This escalation es·ca·late v. es·ca·lat·ed, es·ca·lat·ing, es·ca·lates v.tr. To increase, enlarge, or intensify: escalated the hostilities in the Persian Gulf. v.intr. of the battle to fight off school reform may be waged in the name of the students and community, but it is really being driven by the ego and self-interest of the players. |
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